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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label hyphenaccents</title>
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<h3>Accented words aren’t hyphenated</h3>
<p/>TeX’s algorithm for hyphenation gives up when it encounters an
<code>\</code><code>accent</code> command; there are good reasons for this, but it means
that quality typesetting in non-English languages can be difficult.
<p/>For TeX macro packages, you can avoiding the effect by using an
appropriately encoded font (for example, a Cork-encoded font — see
<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">the EC fonts</a>) which contains accented
letters as single glyphs. LaTeX users can achieve this end simply
by adding the command
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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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to the preamble of their document. Other encodings (notably
LY1, once promoted by Y&Y inc) may be used
in place of T1. Indeed, most current 8-bit TeX font
encodings will ‘work’ with the relevant sets of hyphenation patterns.
<p/>One might hope that, with the many aspirant successors to TeX such
as
<a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega</a>, <a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX</a> and
<a href="FAQ-extex.html">ExTeX</a>,
all of which base their operations on Unicode, that the whole basis of
encodings will change.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphenaccents">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphenaccents</a>
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